100 Franga Overprinted on P#8

This note exists because the Albanian state found itself in 1945 with a currency problem and an inventory of old stock. Rather than commission new printing, authorities overprinted existing Banka e Shtetit Shqiptar notes — the 100 Franga base design from P#8 — with new authorization markings to validate them for continued use under the postwar provisional government. It was a fiscal stopgap, not a planned issue.

The Banca d'Italia printed the original plates in Rome during the Italian occupation period, which makes the parent note itself a product of Albania's wartime subordination to Italian administrative control. The overprint layers a new political reality onto paper that carried a very different one.